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ADDING PERSEVERANCE
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control;
and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
2 Peter 1:5-8
7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these
qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in
your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Peter 1:5-8
21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:21
Perseverance is the ability to correct one’s own theology by debunking
the belief that God is late and operating with the belief that God
is on time
“We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go
through it!”
- Michael Rosen -We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
1) PERSEVERANCE AS A RESULT
We also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
4 perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Romans 5:3-4
26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
James 2:26
Perseverance is the prerequisite for character and hope. There is no other
way around it.
17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes
not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is
unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
This crisis was permitted by God in order to produce a specific trait in you that could not be produced
any other way
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and
complete, not lacking anything.
James 1:2-4
2) PERSEVERANCE AS A RACE
1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off
everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the
race marked out for us, 2 fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.
Hebrews 12:1-2
Anything short of the end is to be disqualified from the race
24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such
a way as to get the prize. 25 Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
26 Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. 27 No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others,
I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
1 Corinthians 9:24-27
Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to
win the prize of God's heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14
The worst things we can ever do is give up on our faith and give up on
life
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store
for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on
that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:7-8
3) PERSEVERANCE AS A REVIEW
We need to open our hearts to a theology of evaluation. Without it,
we will not know how vital we really are and where we need to grow.
A) THE CHURCH IN EPHESUS
2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance… 3 You have persevered and
have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.
Revelation 2:2-3
We may call ourselves Christians, but be emotionally disconnected
from Christ
B) THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA
19 I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are
now doing more than you did at first.
Revelation 2:19
We may consider ourselves emotionally connected to Christ,
but not act like Christians
We must persevere not only to the end of our lives, but until the
end of our faith
